Hat support



March 23 1926.

B. 'JUTZ HAT SUPPORT v Filed Oct. 15; 1925 I N VENTOR:

BENEDIKT JurZ Patented Mar. 23, 1926.

UNITED stares rarer carton.

BENEDIKT JUTZ, OF WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA.

HAT SUPPORT.

Application filed October 15, 1923. Serial No. 668,712.

hicle can remove 'his'hat to be supported by the device.

Another object is to providea device that can be applied to the top of an automobile for supporting the hat of an occupant of the automobile.

Another. object is to provide a device that can be compressed or manipulated to slip into the open end of a hat for engaging the hat.

Another object is to provide a device that can be manipulated to slip into the open end of a hat and may then be allowed to engage the hat.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claim as Well as from the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a top plan view of an attachment 1 embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 ofFig. 1, a hat being indicated in dotted lines to illustrate .its proper position in relation to the attachment. 7

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary end elevation of the handle members as seen in the direction of the arrow 3 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1 is a detail end elevation of a clamping member as seen in the direction of the arrow at in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary top plan view of a slightly modified form of a frame-structure.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary top plan view of another slightly modified form of a frame structure. a

When operating and driving an automobile, it is very pleasant to have the hat removed to allow the air to pass over ones face and head.

A fast-going automobile, however, is liable to create eddy currents or whirls by which a hat may be carried away if loosely placed in the seat or any other place within the body of the automobile. Merely securing the hat by its rim is liable to bringthe hat out of form.

The device disclosed herewith is intended to engage a hat just as if placed on the head of a person, that is, within its hollow or inside. The rim or frame-member 7 is preferably made of a form and size to firmly engage a hat from the inside. In Fig. 2, a hat is illustrated in dotted lines at 8, in a rough contour indicating the proper position of the hat-rim around the frame-member 7, as indicated at 9.

7 Making the frame 7 collapsible or yieldable facilitates a placing or disposing of a hat over the frame. The frame is either made of spring material, as illustrated in the forms of Figs. 1, 2 and 5, or also in a more rigid form, hingedly connected as illustrated in Fig. I

The loop-like portion of the frame structure alone, can be of spring material sufficiently yielding and elastic in order to assure a rebounding suitable for engaging a hat. However, other spring members are illustrated to satisfy any requirement for securely holding a hat. In Figs. 1 and 2, the spring 10 is disposed close to the handlemembers 11, so that the terminations 12 of the loop-like portion of the frame structure can be forced apart regardless of the springing capacity of the loop-like portion. Plain band material of metal, wood, or other similar suitable material may be used in conjunction with such inserted spring 10, to suitably force the loop-like portion of the frame structure, into engaging position within a hat.

Bracing members 13 are secured at one end to the loop-like portion of the frame structure, as indicated at 14. Socket-mem bers 15 are secured to the loop-like portion to slidingly engage over the opposite terminations of the bracing members 13. Springs 16 are disposed between the bracing members 13 and the sockets 15, see Fig. 2. By means of this yielding bracing members, the 1oop-like portion of the frame structure can alsobc spread to suitably engage within a hat.

In conjunction with the springs, either spring 10 or springs 16, the loop-like por tion of the frame-structure may readily be bly made of spring material of-which theends are firmly secured to the loop-like portion of the frame structureY, as indicated at 19. A lug 20 is provided for supporting V and securing or attaching the whole device.

The spring-like bracing member 18 has the tendency to rebound and thereby forcing the loop-like portion 7 outwardly to suitably engage within a hat as described above.

While the lugs 20 may serve for more permanently securing the whole device to suitable places by means of screws, bolts, or other similar suitable means, clamping members are illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 4:, at 21'. By means of these clamping members 21, thedevice can be attach'edto the bow-llkerframe members under the top of an automobile, making the device removable; and, of course, an attaching at other suitable points.

Proportionally small engaging points or pins 22 are lndicated in Fig, 1 for engaging into the material of hats, but these pins are not absolutely necessary as long as the frame structure is made and provided with suitable rebounding facilities in order to assure a proper engaging of a hat without such pins.

From the above, it will be understood that the device can be modified in the different details within the scope of this inventien, and I do not limit myself to any par ticular details.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

In a hat support, a clamping member made in loop-like form with its free ends terminating short of touching each other adapted to be moved towards each other so as to decrease the outer contour of the loop, yielding braces disposed Within the con; tours of the loop and being each attached at one end at a point near the middle of the loop and at the other end near the open end of the loop, means by which the loop can be suspended when attached to some other object, and handle-membersextending from the free ends of the loop-like member pro jecting practically radially from the loop.-

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my lnvention I have slgned my name,

BENEDIKT J UTZ. 

